#BREAKINGNEWS Australia has just given preliminary approval to extend the life of the North West Shelf, the country's biggest and oldest liquefied natural gas plant for decades. This raises serious questions about Australia's climate agenda.

Deforestation pledges will go up in flames if we ignore inequality With wildfires reaching new and disastrous heights, we need an end to global pledges – and more opportunities for people to make a living by protecting valuable ecosystems, writes Chris Wright

🔥🌍 We don't need new global pledges - we need new ideas of how to support and maintain economic opportunities at the forested margins of society - or inequality and drought might simply consume our forests

www.independent.co.uk/voices/defor... @the-independent.com

The electric car market is booming. So why are prices still so high? Protectionist policies in the West mean that we are not gaining the benefits of the boom in electric vehicles, says Chris Wright

2 parts tech, 1 part tariffs, add a pinch of protectionism.

That seems to be the price recipe for EVs - set to make up 1 in 4 cars sold this year

But could this transition happen faster? Should it? And is there a fairer, middle-way?

www.independent.co.uk/voices/elect... @the-independent.com

Might Australian and Canadian voters be heralding a new Western alliance? After a landmark victory for Australia’s centre-left Labor Party, and Mark Carney’s recent success in Canada, the influence of the current US administration may have reached its limit, says Chris Wrig...

🌍 A seismic shift in Australian politics has just opened the door to the most significant opportunity for Australia's domestic and perhaps its role in international climate action in over a decade.

Read more: www.independent.co.uk/voices/austr...

@the-independent.com #auspol #Canada #NetZero

Australia must choose between climate change reality and Trump-style denial When it comes to energy, the country’s opposition leader Peter Dutton is apeing the White House’s moves, says Chris Wright

Australia's two parties are still neck-and-neck ahead of the next election, but when it comes to energy policy, they’re worlds apart.

The outcome could shape the country’s climate future for decades. 🌏⚡ #auspol #climate

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Almost as normal as texting your pregnant partner about how keen you are to sleep around with random women

Coal mine emissions reporting methods remain a major blight on Safeguard success The Safeguard Mechanism is a good policy. But if it is going to succeed, it must start with accurate reporting from the coal sector.

After one year of Australia's Safeguard Mechanism, there are three key questions to ask:

1. Has it created a real incentive to reduce emissions?
2. Can we trust the data?
3. Is it set up to improve over time?

My take on the challenges: reneweconomy.com.au/coal-mine-em...

#ClimatePolicy #AusPol

Solar energy just saves you money – but with AI, could it make you money? This week’s new energy trade fairs brought together some of the most unexpected innovators in green technology – and proved to Chris Wright that if you show people where the money is, they’ll gladly w...

I think we are really only scratching the surface of how incredible renewables + storage can be as a revenue source for so many small businesses

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Definitely. Is that a book Tim Stephens?

Good to clarify why Trump was in such a rush to leave

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

Oh, not a trump story, wait…topline is?

Who will take on the emissions of Australia’s most polluting coal mine if Gupta sells? Sanjeev Gupta is looking to pass the Tahmoor coal mine to its ninth owner for an asking price of $800 million. But who is going to step in and take responsibility for its emissions?

The NSW gov is considering extending Tahmoor coal mine’s 1 million tonnes of CO2-e per year

But who would they even be extending it for?

If ever there was a time to hit pause, this would be it! #auspol

reneweconomy.com.au/who-will-tak...

Global coal demand holds, but drops among our biggest buyers While the demand for coal reached another peak last year, the industry’s growth looks to be concentrated in just a handful of countries.

Global thermal coal markets are moving - and Australia could be in for a rude awakening if we don’t prepare for big shifts in years to come

www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science...

Ahead of COP30, Brazil's Lula pushes for oil drilling in the Amazon Months before COP30, Brazil's president Lula da Silva seeks the expedited approval of a controversial oil drilling project in the Amazon.

So interesting how scary a built-in fossil fuel decline can be for a government seeking to manage debt repayments

And how much simpler the climate challenge would be without further expansionary spending

If Trump thinks we’ve reached peak aid, it’s not looking good for climate finance The aid industry will never be the same after Trump’s freeze on USAID spending, writes Chris Wright. While this will undoubtedly leave critical short-term gaps, some hope it might also lead to longer-...

We passed ‘peak aid’ in 2022 and won’t be going back under Trump. The same is probably true for #climatefinance

Question is, what do we push for now?

www.independent.co.uk/voices/usaid...

Yeah, when I watch the cricket Im all about the runs, not the wickets.

Funny how important those wickets are tho.

Maybe you would LMAO at independents a little less if you actually read their concerns.

Dear America,
THIS 👇 is what you should've done. #DonaldTrump #USPolitics

Your thoughts pls?

And your thoughts on the electorate limitations pls?

You seem to slag independents without actually engaging with the thing they are concerned with?

What do you dislike about what the Teals already do in publishing all donations live?

And what do you like about the lack of transparency efforts from the Libs ans Labor?

So stranded fossil fuel sponsorship risk is now a thing?

Really? The revolt on BP’s $8.9bln profit apparently weighed down by its $1.6 bln expenditure in clean energy doesn’t give me industry-wide diversification vibes. Whats your timeline?

Is this maybe even too Australian?

The subversive genius of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance The Compton MC might have just given us the biggest rap performance ever

This is just embarrassing, and your music critic should be embarrassed.

I recommend instead people read

andscape.com/features/gen...

NSW has coal mine methane emissions in its sights. But will the industry respond? The NSW EPA’s new guide for “Large Emitters” puts the coal industry’s methane crisis in its sights. The big question is, how will the coal mining industry respond?

NSW coal has a bigger global climate impact than…France!

The numbers shocked me too #auspol #nsw

reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-has-coal...

Bitcoin just made Trump billions. But how much will it cost all of us? If unchecked, crypto could be used to trade away national sovereignty, undermine energy security and destabilise the climate – all at the same time, warns Chris Wright

If unchecked, crypto could be used to trade away national sovereignty, undermine energy security and destabilise the climate – all at the same time

www.independent.co.uk/voices/crypt...

Pretty much same for coal too

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

*that the highest bidders may find useful.

Just editing his Linked in conclusion